These take a non-standard needle that is shorter than the normal ones and of course it's obsolete.
Its from 1949 not the 1800s.

Cathy

I have two of those Light Running machine. One came with a needle, whooo hooo. I used a fine emery board to sharpen the needle to test drive it. It sews beautifully after I read the manual and learned that it operates backwards. I then learned that the needles are no longer available but there are "fixes" to make a longer needle work. Just tooo much trouble for me right now.

Steve love your White Model A. I just peeked into this "Photo" shop to see eye candy. There is so much 'text' in here now it is hard to tell which shop we are in! Let's please keep this to photo's or it will become just like the Vintage shop with far too many pages to go through! Sorry, I shouldn't be commenting in here either and I don't mean to sound nasty, but this is a PHOTO shop, let's please go to the Vintage shop to talk! Page one has the rules for this shop!